I think there was a performance gap that tilted towards the UltraSPARC IIe
(the 2000-era Celerons really inhaled deeply)...
What was a mainstream desktop processor selling for at the time? That would be
a fairer comparison I suspect. Were Celerons P3-based in 2000?
Lionel
> On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
>>> On 02/18/2014 05:39 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> Actually to compete, they would have to change the:
>>>> Ethernet from 100 to gigabit
>>>> Ide to sata, or at least to handle greater than 137gb
>>>> Also. So that would be a board revision, possibly a few chips swapped.
>> The core problem is that SPARCs were, and are, expensive. I dug up a couple
press releases with pricing from 2000.
>> Intel Celeron
> 766 MHz: $170
> 733 MHz: $112
>> UltraSPARC IIe
> 500 MHz: $357
> 400 MHz: $230
>> This is probably the closest that SPARC and x86 ever got in price.
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